I Will Complete What I’ve Started January 20
Argh. This blogging business is taking longer than I thought it would. Famous last words. Often mine.
I started writing a post about New Year’s Resoltutions worth stealing more than 2 weeks ago, and forgot about it. It must’ve fallen into the hole where all my other “started but not yet complete” projects go. It’s so full, I’m amazed anything else fit in.
Then I found it today in the Performancing plugin that goes with Firefox. The plugin is a blog editing tool which allows you to write and post to your blogs from the Firefox browser. I was checking it out, wasn’t getting it, wasn’t happy with my post, so decided to leave it till later. My other famous words.
Then life got busy as usual, and since I didn’t have any more time to check out the new editor, I didn’t open it again and so forgot about my half-written post. That is until today, when I decided to see if the plugin was a good option for writing notes to myself about stuff to blog about in the future – so that I wouldn’t forget them. Hah.
And there it was. Awwwwww. That’s the sound you make when you see a cute little puppy with a cast on his leg.
I saw the forgotten collection of words, looking like it was tucked hastily into a drawer, and immediately felt sorry for it. Poor thing – you’ve been neglected. Kind of like in my recurring nightmares where I find ignored pet hamsters in my parents’ linen closets, or tropical fish flopping about in the last inch of gungy aquarium water. Am I telling too much?
And then the following thoughts plugged up my head:
“Geez. It’s a little late to write about New Year’s Resolutions now. But you can’t just throw it out – what a waste. But it will look bad if I put it up on the blog now – it will look like I’m late, a slacker. I don’t want people to think I’m a loser. Well, it’s not like you have anything much else up there. Ouch – good one. No, really, just chuck it. But, ohhhh, it’s a really good cause – you can’t just drop it. You caaaannnnn’t.”
‘Tis true, I can’t just drop it. My 2006 New Year’s Resolution was to finish all the stuff I started. No matter what.
Crap. Mutter, mutter.
Ok. I will post it.
Then more head mess ensues.
“Do I just put it up and pretend no one will notice? Kind of like sneaking into the back of the class when it’s all ready started? Or do I come up with a good excuse? How about a segue – something about second chances for resolutions if you’ve messed yours up all ready. Yeah, yeah. I could say something about Chinese New Year coming up in February. That’s it. We’ve got an in! Phew.
And so goes my humble little third post for my personal blog. Follow on to the fourth, which should have been the third.